Not that I am preduc... prejudg.... against people with a lower height variant than the norm... (some of my best friends are midgets).... but at least THEY have a personality.... I mean a personality that doesn't creep me out.

The Collective Brain: The synoptic serendipity that comes when interesting thoughts from interesting and interested people get together. And the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.

Seems like a casting purely out to earn money with a (semi/formerly) big name Hate those castings most of the time.
It's a bit like viewing online threads etc with -who would you cast as- and then see all those big Hollywood names. Often makes me want to hit my head against the wall.